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Provigil Extends Your Day?
John Mearns writes "It looks like before long all caffeine junkies will be able to ditch the bottle of Mountain Dew or cup of coffee in favor of pill. Its not a true stimulant so you don't get the "caffeine crash," just countless hours of alert attentiveness. " It's also
still in testing so it'll probably make you grow horns or something, and is
supposed to only be used for people who are sleepy during the day, but it raises
several interesting ethical questions.
Cool, if I take these it will increase my chances of getting a first post.
Pop pill.
Reload
Pop pill.
Reload
Pop pill.
Reload
Rinse,
Repeat.
What would happen if you took this with an Ambien, a couple of beers, a Tylenol-3 and a grande mocha? I think you would time travel...
If I would have had this during my undergrad career as an engineer, maybe I could have gotten a degree AND had a social life!
....I'm always chasing rainbows...
sleep 2 hours a day and feel great
I'm REALLY curious about trying that new sleep pattern, but oddly enough, I don't have the time to try it!
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- There's a Dilbert in this somewhere...
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
What happens if you mixed a pot of coffee a few liters of mountain dew and a few Provigal pills? Would you become the Kwisatz Haderach ?
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
Hmm, now if I can get pills that remove my need for food, air, water, and sex, I will legally qualify as a robot.
Robotiq.com is heavily tested on animals
Medical test after medical test has shown that people that deprive themselves of sleep go insane and lose their ability to perform even the easiest of tasks.
Lol, I got an insanity story to tell...
When I was 18, I worked construction down in bakersfield. Everyday my boss would give me a little bit of krank to stick in my gums. I honestly didn't know what I was getting into as I had never done it before.
After a week of no sleep, drinking pint's of whiskey like they were soda pops, and various hallucinations. I decided it would be a *Good Thing* to take on my friends 350lb father with my 150lb kranked out self.
Lucky for me, all he did was throw me 30 feet to which, I landed on my feet, ran across the street and started yelling, "C'mon you pussy come on this side of the street i'll kick your ass!" After that episode I went home, slept for 28 hours, and vowed never to do that shit again. Haven't touched the stuff since.
Provigal extends your day, Viagra extends your performance, Now I can bonk all night long without falling asleep.
Yeah, some kids in my dorm did this. They had heard that DaVinci did it or something. It went for a few days, until they overslept and nothing at all would wake them. They only missed a few classes.
=Brian
There is nothing so good that someone, somewhere, will not hate it.
That's because he began to deviate from the pattern.
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I've been on the Uberman cycle for about ~95 days now, and I feel great. I've average about 3.5 hours of sleep a day, and I realy feel as refreshed as I used to be after a 10 hour sleep-fest.
I highly recommend it to anyone who is willing to
is this one of those advertising bots???
NO! i don't want starbucks OR listerine strips, now stop posting!!
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It's also still in testing so it'll probably make you grow horns or something
So I can get more work done in a day, and grow horns? I want in on the clinical trial!
Cheers
-b
Girlfriend sez: "In your case, it would just make the ones you already have visible."
This is true once I took thee vivrin and 4 bottles of caffinated water to finish a project while in school persuing architecture. I started friday and worked through the entire weekend, no sleep. I handed in my project thank God it was a silent crit, went home and slept at 11am, then woke up 9:30 wednesday morning. I would never do it again, but the level of creativity I attained on that project I have never been able to reach again. I guess there is much to be said for vivrin, caffinated water, and marker fumes huh.
Hell, that's a plus! Who wants a paranoid psycho to be able to bite them?
Carpe Deez
...Provigil, whose name is shorthand for "promotes vigilance."
*sigh*
Lembas would have been such a better name.
-Bill
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This is a Microsoft attitude. Like one Microsoft support guy once said: "Memory is like gasoline - you use it up, then your computer has to fill up the tank again by restarting." This is mostly the same reasoning which you use in your pro-sleep argument, but I think that when you need sleep after so short uptime like 18 hours or so, then it means you have some serious problems with your mind getting unstable very quickly. Remember, rebooting is not an answer. Real hackers fix their systems and don't have to reset them any more. Please, stop listening to that Microsoft anti-GPL FUD propaganda, for God's sake!
~shiny
WILL HACK FOR $$$
" if a drug was discoverd tomorrow that got you high for 1 hour, had no side effects and made you glow neon orange so every cop could know you were on it, it would still be illegal in the u.s. if it were fun."
Fuck the drug effect, I wanna glow neon orange! Bzzzzzz! Think how cool I would look, and how the chix (tm) would be impressed with my glowing goodness.
glowing graspee